Jen Mulson

Entertainment Reporter

Jennifer Mulson has worked in the entertainment department of The Gazette for 12 years, first doing the calendar listings for all those fine events, and is now the arts and entertainment reporter. She particularly loves a Broadway musical, an indie, folky singer/songwriter and a passionate spoken word poem.

The Tony Award-winning 2004 musical "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" will polish off the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College's theater season with its only adult musical comedy on the 2017-2018 roster.

Once upon a time, in a town not that far away, scandalous activity was keeping the Woman's Christian Temperance Union up at night. It was the late 1800s, and Colorado City (now Old Colorado City) was the last bit of civilization before folks headed west to chase their fortune in...

Touring the world isn't all glitz and glamour.
After soprano Máiréad Carlin finishes her last note with Celtic Woman, she goes backstage, peels off her fake eyelashes, puts on her flannel pajamas and makes a cup of tea. Performing is her greatest love, but it comes with baggage. The...

Anyone who's read Julia Cameron's classic self-help book, "The Artist's Way," knows she's a strong believer in "filling the well."
To deepen your creativity, you must find what inspires and nourishes you mentally, emotionally and spiritually, and partake in it often.
For me,...

The Grammy and Dove award-winning Christian rock band Casting Crowns will make a stop in Colorado Springs this fall.
The group's "The Very Next Thing Tour" will be at The Broadmoor World Arena on Oct. 14. I Am They will open the show.
Tickets start at $23 and go on sale at 10 a.m....

Listening to the new nonfiction podcast series "Habitat" sends me spiraling into a panic. In order to help NASA understand what life on Mars might be like, six people volunteered to go on a fake space mission simulating life on the red planet. They agreed to spend a whole year in a...

If only every pair of pajamas promised magical powers.
In the popular animated Disney Junior TV series "PJ Masks," three young friends are school kids by day and superheroes by night. If one of them or their friends has a bad day at school, they take matters into their own hands. At...

It's big and it's wonderful. What more do you need to know?
The Big Wonderful festival is crammed with bluegrass music, food trucks, vendors and breweries, distilleries and wineries. Up to 10,000 people came to the first event of the season this month in Denver's River North Art...

For Kurtis Matthews, the devil was in the alcohol.
For Andy Gold, heroin.
After a car accident almost killed him and resulted in a second DUI at age 22, Matthews ditched the liquid poison and never looked back. He's been sober for more than three decades.
For Gold, a Salt Lake...